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(No Model.)

W. S. GRANGER.

' GLOTHCALENDERING ROLL.

.858 Patented July 30, 1889.

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UNITED STATEs PATENT @EEicE.

WILLIAM S. GRANGER, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO THE GRANGERFOUNDRY AND MACHINE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

CLOTH-CALENDERING RQLL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 407,858, dated July 30,1889.

Application filed September 13, 1888. Serial No. 285,308. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: mass bypassing about equal portions of eachBe it known that 1, WILLIAM S. GRANGER, substance through a coarselapper or cardinga citizen of the United States, residing at machine,whereby the husk material is more Providence, in the county ofProvidence and or less broken up and suitably intermingled 5 State ofRhode Island, have invented new with the cotton.

and useful Improvements in Oloth-Oalender-, In Fig. 1 the said materialsare as far as ing Rolls, of which the following is a specifipracticableillustrated in the sectional porcation. tion of the roll there shown,and in that figure This invention relates to calendering-rolls, aindicates the cotton, and 0 portions of the to and particularly to thatclass thereof to be husk matter.

used for calendering and finishing muslin, The manner of constructingthe roll from print-cloths, and similar textile fabrics, the saidmaterials is that ordinarily pursued in object being to provide animproved roll for making rolls from other similar ones-that is said useand the invention consists in the to say, the shaft 4 is placed in anupright po- 15 peculiar construction of the roll, all as heresition withone of the heads 5 thereon near inafter fully described, and pointed outin its lower end in or on a suitable base under the claim. a hydraulicpress. The mixed cotton and In the drawings forming part of thisspccicorn-husks above described are then applied fication, Figure l is aside elevation of a porand arranged in proper position around the 20tion of a calendering-roll constructed accordshaft, and the saidhydraulic press is brought ing to my invention, a portion of the body ofto act to compress and solidify said material, the roll shown in thisfigure being shown in forcing it downward against the said headlongitudinal section to illustrate as far as near its lower end, andlittle by little more may be the materials of which the roll is and morematerial is added to the roll and 7 5 2 5 composed. Fig. 2 is aperspective view of a compressed as before, until the roll shall haveportion of the roll, one end thereof being attained the desired length,when a second shown broken off. head is placed on the upper end of theroll In the drawings, 4 indicates the ordinary and forced against thelatter by said press, shaft of a calendering-roll, and 3 the roll itandis then locked in position, as described. o self, which is in practicebuilt up on the The roll is then placed in asuitable latheand shaft 4,as below described, said shaft being is turned and'finished ready foruse. vordinarily provided with a fixed collar 6 near Thecalendering-roll made as above deits journal at each end. A metallicroll-head scribed, and consisting of the said combina- 5 is lockedagainst the end of the roll 3 in tion of materials, possesses certainadvanta- 8 5 any suitable manner, one means of locking geouscharacteristics not possessed by rolls said roll being shown in thedrawings, consistheretofore made, said characteristics being ing of twosegments 7 of a split ring,-whiclr those particularly adapted to thefinishing of are inserted in an annular groove in shaft 4 textilematerial of the classes above referred between the outer face of saidhead 5 and the to, in that the cotton portion of the roll pro- 4o collar6 011 the shaft in the positions shown vides the requisite finishing andsurfacein Figs. 1 and 2, whereby said head is rigidly polishing materialand the husk portion of locked against each end of the roll 3, and thematerial of the roll provides an elastic thereby such connection is madebetween the feature not possessed by the cotton alone, and latter andthe shaft at as causes the shaft and the husk portion of the roll causesthe latter 5 5 the-roll to rotate in use as one. to so act upon thefabric against which it The essential feature of novelty in the calrollsthat the threads thereof are not injuriendering-roll which constitutesthe subjectously flattened, for the reason that the face matter of thisinvention consists in the comof the roll permits of certain temporaryinbination of materials from which the roll 3 is dentations thereinwhich may be caused by I00 50 made, said materials consisting ofcorn-husks the fabric, but which indentations, owing to and cotton mixedor commingled in a common the elastic action of the husk material, areof only temporary duration, and hence such indentations or marks as maybe impressed on the face of the roll in use cause no permanent injurythereto. v

I am aware that it is common to make calendering-rolls entirely fromcotton and entirely from c0r11-l1usks,and I do not claim rolls so madeas my invention; but

